Author: ๐“ฐ๐“ธ๐“ต๐“ญ๐“ฎ๐“ท_๐“ป๐“ฎ๐“ฝ๐“ป๐“ฒ๐“ฎ๐“ฟ๐“ฎ๐“ป ๐ŸŸ๐Ÿ˜ ๐•ฃ๊ช–แฅด๊ซ€เชก/แฆ”๊ช–๊ช—

There is nothing like playing music on a piano. Your fingers take over, and you forget everything around you but your hands, the sheet music, and the ivory keys. As you play, the combination of notes tells a story, incomparable to any book or movie. The deep, pounding chords, or elegant, floating melody tell impossible tales of fear and triumph, sadness and love. As a beginner who's just learning to play, it may seem hard or even impossible to create that kind of music, but over years of practice and performances, you'll start to get better. In addition to an increased skill level, you'll learn new musical concepts and terms. As someone who has just started playing, the most important thing is to just play the right notes. After that, you can add in dynamics and tempo to change the volume or speed. You'll also learn to bounce your fingers off the keys to create staccato notes, to hold the pedal to create smooth notes while still knowing exactly when to lift it. You'll know the perfect length to hold a fermata and just how slow a ritardando should be. Increasingly complex musical terms will appear, but with practice you will figure it out. However, as you get better, the songs you play will get harder. It may get frustrating at times, like when facing a particularly hard section of a piece. You may even want to quit. But as you keep going and put the song together, it's amazing to listen to all the work you've done, whether as a beginner or professional. And the performances! Nerve-racking, yet incredibly exciting. Getting to sit down and show everybody what you've been working on is greater than anything at all. Even if you make mistakes, showing off what you've learned brings triumph and joy as you remember the long hours of practice it took to get there. Being able to perform music is one of the best parts of being a musician. But the real best part of all of this? No, it's not becoming bilingual due to your expanded Italian dictionary, or standing up and realizing you have absolutely no idea how to pronounce the composer's name. (Trust me, there are some really hard names to say.) The best part is the music you make. Absolutely nothing can describe the power in the air around you, the pure peacefulness and grace of the notes. There are no words strong enough, no description vivid enough to accurately express what happens when a breathtaking performance comes together. It's transfixing, and if beauty were to have a form, I'd consider it the music that comes from a piano. It's why I will always, always continue to play the piano no matter what, because the music it creates is simply beautiful.
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